Cohesity DSPM, powered by Cyera

Uncover sensitive data across your IT estate. Reduce risk fast. Strengthen cyber resilience.

Digital transformation initiatives like cloud, SaaS, and AI adoption have unlocked unparalleled speed and collaboration. At the same time, these trends have led to unprecedented data sprawl and proliferation: sensitive data is scattered across apps, cloud services, and accessed by AI models and agents. Many organizations are unsure of protection policies associated with all this data, even as it’s accessed by employees, customers, and AI agents. This situation increases your risk of a breach, compliance failure, and reputational damage.

As workloads move to the cloud and is increasingly automated and accessed by agents, the network perimeter matters less than it used to. Only two things now remain within an organization’s control: data and who (or what) can access it. IT and Security teams need the right technology, people, and processes to continuously discover and classify sensitive information quickly, continually, and at scale across the full footprint. The visibility and control of data is key for optimizing your data and AI risk posture and stronger cyber resilience overall.

Figure 1: Data is the fastest growing business resource in volume and value.

Key Benefits

Shrink data blind spots fast
Reduce false positives with high-precision classification
Faster time to value with quick deployment
Actionable risk remediation
Prevent sensitive data from entering and leaving AI models
Faster incident response
Improve compliance readiness
Prioritize protection of sensitive data
Prioritize recovery of mission critical data
Reduce TCO through remediation of ROT data

The solution

Cohesity DSPM (Data Security Posture Management), powered by Cyera, is a powerful solution that uses AI to continuously discover data and automate sensitive data classification across known and unknown environments. The product presents a unified view of data security risks and—crucially —allows teams to prioritize risks for remediation.

The solution delivers four outcomes for security teams:

Agentless discovery at speed and scale - Cohesity DSPM, powered by Cyera, integrates seamlessly into cloud and on-prem environments, scanning repositories to identify datastores, where they live, how they’re configured, and who can access them—often starting in minutes.
AI-powered classification with context - It classifies both common sensitive patterns and organization-specific data (like proprietary algorithms or confidential project codes), improving precision while reducing false positives so teams focus on what matters.
Posture analysis that drives action - By combining discovery, classification, and posture analysis, the solution creates a centralized, scalable data inventory showing what sensitive data you have, where it resides, how it’s used, how it’s protected, and who has access. From there, the solution delivers actionable remediation guidance to help teams identify, prioritize, and fix exposures before they become incidents.
Secure data accessed by users, AI agents, and models - Now that you can see what data you have, you can then control who (and what) has access to your data. As AI agents become more popular, Cohesity DSPM helps you improve your posture against this new threat model. Cohesity DSPM, powered by Cyera, helps identify whether sensitive data is unintentionally entering AI systems and clarifies what data may be exposed through tools like Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT. This means your organization can put the right guardrails in place before AI becomes your newest exfiltration path.

Understand your data, start stopping breaches

For your information security program to work effectively, you need to fill the enforcement gap. Start with an understanding your data. Then, enforce policies that control its access, movement, and usage. Cohesity DSPM and Cohesity Data Loss Prevention (DLP), powered by Cyera, work together to help you understand your data, and enforce the right policies. Cohesity DLP, powered by Cyera sits atop your DLP tools to help your data security program work at scale. Cohesity DLP acts as an intelligence layer, above your existing infrastructure, to surface the most critical alerts. It ingests deep data intelligence from Cohesity DSPM, to inform better, smarter, and more effective policies that strengthens data security, accelerates response, and boosts operational efficiency for your security teams.

Figure 3: Cohesity DSPM and Cohesity DLP identifies the data that matters and then protects it at rest, in motion, and in use, helping organizations effectively navigate data and AI risk at scale.

Optimizing data and AI risk posture is at the core of cyber resilience

Data security and cyber resilience aren’t two separate programs—they’re two sides of the same coin. When you tighten data security, you reduce the likelihood of an event, and its blast radius. When you improve resilience, you recover faster and feed the lessons back into stronger controls. This is why continuously optimizing data risk posture with Cohesity DSPM, powered by Cyera, is critical to improving cyber resilience. In addition, Cohesity DSPM is seamlessly integrated with the Cohesity Data Cloud, enabling the following key use cases:

Uncover and address gaps in sensitive data protection - Automatically detect unprotected sensitive assets and close protection gaps with automated policy enforcement.
Protect data that high-risk users touch - Automate protection policies to backup data accessible by “high-risk users” (those that have access to a lot of sensitive data). This reduces the risk of cyberattacks that purposely target individuals (executives, IT, etc.) with broad permissions.
Accelerate incident response - Meet regulatory expectations by quickly determining the blast radius of an incident.
Compliant and secure recovery - Prioritize the recovery of critical and active workloads. Enforce compliance by making sure backups and recoveries are aligned with data compliance frameworks (GDPR, HIPAA, etc.).
Cost optimization of data storage - Identify redundant, obsolete or trivial (ROT) data and automate tiering and/or deletion of that data. This reduces storage costs and risk by minimizing unnecessary exposure of ROT data.

Bottom line: Cohesity DSPM, powered by Cyera, is foundational for data security and cyber resilience outcomes.

Securing data and AI starts with DSPM

Security leaders can’t protect what they can’t see. In today’s world data sprawl makes “seeing” the hard part.

Cohesity DSPM, powered by Cyera, restores control by focusing on the two things you still own: your data and access to it. Give your teams the precision, speed, and actionability to continuously discover and classify sensitive data, understand risk in context, and respond decisively. Reduce your risk, even as your data volume and AI usage grows. This solution allows you to reduce breach impact, strengthen compliance readiness, recover quickly and compliantly, and enable the business to use data and adopt AI with confidence.

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